Word: melle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KENNETH LA MELL...
...artful spontaneity, a kind of controlled insanity, emerging from a cascade of crazy cartoon ideas. In yet another TV season of pale copies, Laugh-In is unique. It features no swiveling chorus lines, no tuxedoed crooners. Just those quick flashes of visual and verbal comedy, tumbling pell-mell from the opening straight through the commercials till the NBC peacock turns tail. Often the first-time viewer can hardly believe the proceedings. Silly punch lines fly like birdshot. Childish name games produce outrageous amalgams of sound...
...only in destroying pride and incentive. Observed Evans: "The first priority of the U.S. is the resolution of our internal conflict?the recognition that if we cannot unite our own nation, then we cannot preserve the hope of others." But that, he added carefully, did not mean a pell-mell pullout from Viet Nam. "To have entered the war by the path of error does not mean that we can now leave through the door of default...
...trades for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His aim, says Kustow, will be to put on not only exhibitions "but a new kind of show." Actually, he adds, "I think of this place as much more a television studio than a gallery." He has already drawn up a pell-mell schedule calling for experimental films and plays, a production of Fire by New York's Bread and Puppet Theater, as well as exhibitions of cybernetic and advertising...
Bang Bang. What makes Laugh-In laughable is not so much the material as the freewheeling, pell-mell pace at which it is dished out. One-liners fly like ack-ack, and if there are more than a few duds it is hard to tell in the thick of the barrage. Everybody wings it, and in that spirit the show's resident cast of bright young kooks often make the lines seem funnier than they really are. "If one gag goes completely over your head," says Martin, "there'll be another along in a few seconds that...